Slovo, Joe

Slovo, Joe

(1926-95) a white South African lawyer, born in Lithuania, who had an important part in opposing the system ofapartheid in South Africa. He was the leader of the South African Communist Party, and a leading member of the ANC. In the last two years of his life he was a minister in Nelson Mandela's government.

Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Advanced Learner's Dictionary.